American Dream

The author states that he wants to become the President at some point in his life. He grew up in one of the most multinational corporations. He had gone through a very racist time in culture. He goes over parts of his families past and talks about them and sharing what they thought about others. He talks about using racial terms through out the paper such as "Jewing" someone. If he bacame President he said he would be fighting for libert and justice for all.

Paraphrase

When writing a paper quotes are use to much a majority of the time. "Only 10% of you final manuscript should appear directly quoted" (46-47). You should have an objective to keep the number of direct quotes down to a minimum. (Lester,1976)

Laura's writing

-What I like about her writing is that she starts out evrything with a story of Rosa. Then she gets into talking about the sex trade in cambodia.
-The biggest strength of her paper is the research that she has done and the information that she has given to the reader. One weakness that she has is she doesnt really explain how it relates to her or to the reader and what significance this is.
-I forgot what adding "action" is. But she said in the paper that if you wanted to get involved you could just help raise awareness, of the sex trafficing, to local people around you.

Reflection on reading research article

The subject in our article was Suicide of Asian Americans. The article was broken up in to seperate sections. For example, age and gender was one and another was religion. What I learned from this is how to properly analyze an article the best I can. Also learned how to get information if the subject is to personal that you may not be able to find enough participants.

The purpose of this atricle is, that we have to relate music to society. Serious music we have to uncover things concealed in the talk. The pop are scoffed at in talk of social functions. These to are described differently even though they are both types of music that society listens to.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/26819-squashing-stereotypes-racism-in-sports-part-one

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR_Racism_NBA_050407.html

http://www.alternet.org/story/30460/?page=1

focusing question

What effect does racism have on sports in the 21st century?

• What sports can be questionably racist?
• If the sport or sports have racism, is the sport racist against Whites or African-Americans?
• Is there more African-American athletes in the Southern states rather than the Northern?
• What is the White to African-American ratio in each sport?

Social Diversity

A culture that is socially diverse consists of people with many different backgrounds and perspectives.  Having many cultures in a society is multiculturalism.  The importance of having social diversity today is because without it I would not have the same friends as I do now.   I am glad that males and females can live together without worries of getting in trouble.  I also am glad that we do not have segregation like we used to in America.  There is still some racism in America but it is still not as bad as it was back in the day.

A person who has influenced social diversity is Jackie Robinson.  He was the first Africa American player to play in the MLB.   I have become friends with many African Americans because of sports, and some of my closest friends, including some of my coaches, are African American.  Without Jackie Robinson I possibly would not have some of the teammates I have now. 

I am interested in investigating racism in American Sports.  I feel like this is an important topic because racism is still a major part of America.  I am still undecided but I am interested in Criminal Justice.  Racism relates to criminal justice because everyone thinks that police are racist.